“I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment" – Charlie Kirk
"You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality" -Ayn Rand
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” - H.L. Mencken
“We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us — the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.” - Terrance McKenna
"I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." -Clarence Darrow
That kind don’t kill themselves. They live in hope, waiting for a phone call, or a telegram, or a letter, or a knock on the door, or running into someone on the street who will see how beautiful they really are. They think about killing themselves, but then they might not be able to answer the phone
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." — Edmund Burke
"We do not feel justified in giving up what has come to the industry like a gift from heaven, on the possibility that a hazard may be involved in it." - Frank Howard, President of Standard Oil, on public health concerns about lead in fuel.
" Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. " -Robert Louis Stevenson
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction is to live twice." -Khalil Gibran
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible - Stanisław Jerzy Lec, others
"… a cat and a Time Machine, people naturally ask if the cat uses the Time Machine. He does; but not to transport him to a different part of the continuum. Cats can do that by themselves. Anybody who lives with a cat knows that at one time the cat is here; at another time, he is not." Ursula Le Guin
“If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.21 (trans. George Long).
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.” —Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
“Policy without politics is empty; politics without policy is blind.” - Prof. Ian Shapiro (via Immanuel Kant)
“Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.” - EPICTETUS, Enchiridion 5 (trans. Elizabeth Carter).
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized." --Albert Einstein
"All your life you will be faced with a choice. "You can choose love or hate... I choose love." -Johnny Cash